First, I'd tell Okada Sama, that I love the sympathetic psychological insights she reveals about how people in groups deal with each other, and how people deal with each other individually over time. Then, I'd want to ask...

1) What's your favorite part of this kind of story telling? Creating a overarching world view, or finding, as you create, the little surprises the story revels to you as it unfolds? The creative planning, the unplanned inspirations, or what?

2) Your insight into human nature is acute. I wonder if you feel that your story telling skills spring from your deep analysis of personal experience, or do you consider yourself a keen and empathic observer?

3) How do you imagine the flow of the story? Does it develop as a result of the innate nature of the characters you imagine? Does it result from the goals you give the characters and their collision with the structure of the world you've defined for them? What inspires you?

4) What do you like to read?

Whatever the answers, I hope Okada sama has a long and fruitful career, and a very satifying life!

To Mari Okada-sensei: In January of this year we celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Anime on Japanese Television, what as a writer do you feel has made the medium of Anime so special, and endearing through all these years?

First, I love everything Mari Okada has worked on so thanks to her so much for writing those episodes and series compositions, et al. And thanks to Crunchyroll for bringing them to us!

My questions:

How was it different writing for a movie version of Hanasaku Iroha Home Sweet Home compared to writing a TV series?

Would you have preferred to do a second TV series of Hanasaku Iroha or was it better to create a movie?

What series that you've worked on would you like to write more episodes for? I know she can't say which ones might not be announced yet, just looking for her opinion here.

Did you always want to be a script and screenplay writer or did you want to write novels or manga? Anohana manga is the only one I think you've written, how was that compared to writing scripts? You haven't done one since, is that because you are so busy with scripts or because you prefer writing screenplays?

Thanks for all you've done. I look forward to your future work!
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Please bring us the Hanasaku Iroha Home Sweet Home movie, Crunchyroll!!!

"You always seem to portray childhood friends/best friends romance in a good light, especially in your original works such as True Tears, Hanasaku Iroha, AnoHana, and maybe even the upcoming shows like Nagi no Asakura and True Tours Nanto. Has this been a coincidence, or is it related to what you think is the ideal romance?"

"Do you take a different approach in your writing style when it comes to Anime Movies than to Anime Tv series? Do you feel like you have more freedom as a writer when writing longer scripts for movies? Also, congratulations on Hanaksau Ihora: Home Sweet Home and I am looking forward to the Ano Hana movie coming out in the summer."

There's recently been a growing trend of trap manga aimed at girls as part of the BL gentre. Wandering Son takes itself very seriously for the most part, though. Was it difficult to write for because of that?